Concept
Feminism in France
Overview
Feminism in France is the history of feminist thought and movements in France. Feminism in France can be roughly divided into three waves: First-wave feminism from the French Revolution through the Third Republic which was concerned chiefly with suffrage and civic rights for women. Significant contributions came from revolutionary movements of the French Revolution of 1848 and Paris Commune, culminating in 1944 when women gained the right to vote.
Second-wave feminism began in the 1940s as a reevaluation of women's role in society, reconciling the inferior treatment of women in society despite their ostensibly equal political status to men. Pioneered by theorists such as Simone de Beauvoir, second wave feminism was an important current within the social turmoil leading up to and following the May 1968 events in France. Political goals included the guarantee of increased bodily autonomy for women via increased access to abortion and birth control.
Third-wave feminism since the 2000s continues the legacy of the second wave while adding elements of postcolonial feminism, approaching women's rights in tandem with other ongoing discourses, particularly those surrounding racism.
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Let the ladies of this country pretend what they will, they are, in spite of themselves, extremely good-natured. All men who are burthened with a multiplicity of affairs, are difficult of access, and without commiseration; and in Paris, the center of business of one of the most considerable nations in Europe, the men of consequence are particularly obdurate: those, therefore, who have any thing to ask, naturally…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Eloisa
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The solidarity of the arts consists in the exchange of industry, that of commerce in the exchange of commodities, that of banks in the exchange of money or securities. All these ideas hang together, and their foundation has already been laid in early childhood with the help of Robert the gardener. All we have now to do is to substitute general ideas for particular, and to enlarge these ideas by means of numerous…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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Nobody and nothing dared to assume the right of permanent existence and of an actual fact. All the elements that had prepared or determined the revolution—dynastic opposition, republican bourgeoisie, democratic-republican small traders’ class, social-democratic labor element—all found “provisionally” their place in the February government.
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Related ideas
- Yale University Press
- Feminism
- French Revolution
- Le Monde
- Gender equality
- Emile, or On Education
- Women's rights
- Prostitution
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Hélène Cixous
- Lawyer
- Women's suffrage
- Left-wing politics
- Birth control
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- French Third Republic
- Paris
- Patriarchy
- Charles Fourier
- Racism
- Romanticism
- Pamphlet
- French Revolution of 1848
Place in the tradition
Part of Continental philosophy.